The 'I'm Hungover' Drink

This gentle slap in the face may not be pretty, but it'll make the morning after a whole lot more tolerable.

One of the more refreshing parts about our monthly The Last Word column is asking luminaries in the fields of adventure, entertainment, and medicine to describe their trusted hangover cures. Television's best-known survivalist told us to go for a run and follow it with a swim in a cold river. (Disclosure: We begrudgingly tried it, substituting the Atlantic Ocean for a free-flowing rivulet.) But when Craig Venter, the man who unlocked the human genome, said the scientific remedy is, in fact, more alcohol, we dialed mixologist John Meyers, bartender at the Corner Room in Portland, Maine, to concoct a sure-fire solution. Here's what he came up with.